State v. Davis

— I. The indictment charged the defendant with having seduced one Zella Hoke, on June 20, 1918. The prosecutrix testified that the first act of illicit intercourse occurred in the latter part of June, 1918, and gave it as her best judgment that it was on the night of the 20th, but admitted that it might have been a few days later in June. She further testified that she first met the defendant in 1917; that he commenced keeping company with her in the early winter of 3917, and that the relation thus formed continued until in February, 1919; that, prior to her seduction, he professed to love…